X.
One afternoon a large party of us had taken our meal at an inn on the lake of Nemi. The evening was more than earthly. The calm, still, mountain lake, the old, filled-up crater, on the top of the mountain, had a fairy-like effect. I dropped down behind a boulder and lay for a long time alone, lost in ecstasy, out of sight of the others. All at once I saw a blue veil fluttering in the breeze quite near me. It was the young Danish girl, who had sat down with me. The red light of the evening, Nemi and she, merged in one. Not far away some people were setting fire to a blaze of twigs and leaves; one solitary bird warbled across the lake; the cypresses wept; the pines glowered; the olive trees bathed their foliage in the mild warmth; one cloud sailed across the sky, and its reflection glided over the lake. One could not bear to raise the voice.
It was like a muffled, muffled concert. Here were life, reality and dreams. Here were sun, warmth and light. Here were colour, form and line, and in this line, outlined by the mountains against the sky, the artistic background of all the beauty.
Noufflard and I accompanied our Northern friends from Albano to the station; they were going on as far as Naples, and thence returning home. We said good-bye and walked back to Albano in the mild Summer evening. The stars sparkled and shone bright, Cassiopaeia showed itself in its most favourable position, and Charles's Wain stood, as if in sheer high spirits, on its head, which seemed to be its recreation just about this time.
It, too, was evidently a little dazed this unique, inimitable Spring.
INDEX
Aagesen, Professor
Aarestrup, Emil
About, Edmond
Adam
Adam Homo
Adventures on a Walking Tour
Aeneid, The
Aeschylus
Agar, Mlle.
Aladdin
Alcibiades
Algreen-Ussing, Frederik
Algreen-Ussing, Otto
Ali and Gulhyndi
Alibert, Mr.
Andersen, H.C.
Angelo
Angelo, Michael
Antony
Apel
Aristotle
Arne
Arrest, Professor d'
Art, Danish, French, German dramatic
Astronomy
Auerbach, Berthold
Augier
Augustenborg, Duke of
Baagöe
Baggesen
Bain
Banville
Barbier, Auguste
Bazaine
Beaumarchais
Bech, Carl
Bendix, Victor
Benner
Bentham
Bergen, Carl von
Bergh, Rudolp
Bergsöe
Bernhardt, Sarah
Bible, The
Bille
Bismarck
Bissen, Wilhelm
Björnson
Blanchetti, Costanza
Blicher
Bluhme, Geheimeraad
Borup
Bov
Boy, A Happy
Brand
Bretteville
Bröchner, H.
Brohan, The Sisters
Brussels
Bruun, Emil
Buch der Lieder
Burgraves, Les
Byron
Caesar
Caprice, Un
Caro
Casellini
Catullus
Cerrotti, Ottavio
Chamounix
Chanson de Roland
Chasles, Émile
Chasles, Philarète
Chatterton
Choteau, Marie
Christian VIII.
Christian IX.
Christianity
Cinq-Mars
Clarétie, Jules
Clausen
Cologne
Comte
Copenhagen
Coppée
Coquelin
Corday, Charlotte
Correggio
Cousin
Criticisms and Portraits
Crone
Dame aux Camélias, La
Danish Literature
Dante
Darwin
David, C.N.
David, Ludvig
Delacroix
Delisle
Devil, The
Dichtung und Wahrheit
Disraeli,
Divina Commedia
Don Juan
Don Quixote
Dörr, Dr.
Drachmann
Drama, German
Driebein
Dualism in Our Modern Philosophy
Dubbels
Dubois, Mlle.
Dumas
Dumas, The Younger